Fashionable fixes ensure mall's well

7:21 PM,
Sep. 25, 2012

Written by

Dan MacArthur

I've been enthralled with malls all my life, despite my disparagement of these climate-controlled habitats.

I was at ground zero when the first in our region opened in 1967. North Valley Mall was a magical place with all the standard mall fare, including a grocery store where a caring clerk squirreled away old pennies for my collection.

The former shopping magnet started its slide into a number of marginal iterations when the Northglenn Mall arrived about a year later. The last time I went there was to buy my first and only suit ever at the Burlington Coat Factory. Still fits. ...